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Sometimes, you have to convince people that you need to invest in refactoring in order to improve the quality of a piece of code in order to keep working with it. It keeps going faster and faster until you have no hope of finishing?
Or:
You always get the crooked pieces when you least need them?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It keeps going faster and faster until you have no hope of finishing?
Or:
You always get the crooked pieces when you least need them?
Or:
Technical Debt Is like a game of Baldur's Gate
Or:
Technical Debt Is like The Masked Singer
Or:
Technical Debt Is like a thumb that's been sucked too much
The way he crushed, squeezed, and squashed the metaphor into the article demonstrates that the content of his articles probably depends on what the guy is into at the time.
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I just had to correct two inflection errors!
That's a bad, bad, bad day!
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I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 21-Jan-20 11:46am.
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Technical debt is like articles by authors trying to sound intelligent and comment writers trying to be cleverly snarky who don't know how to end their comment....
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These redesigned icons are based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design System and at present, they now appear only on the taskbar. "It's a beautiful mornin'"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "It's a beautiful mornin'"
There's a bright golden haze on my eyeballs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The number of breaches reported each day continues to rise - and the number of significant fines is soon to follow. "Particle man, particle man Doing the things a particle can"
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Is his formal name Sir Valence?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Bond. Covalent Bond.
TTFN - Kent
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"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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How ionic.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The number of breaches reported each day continues to rise - and the number of significant fines is soon to follow.
Quite right!
Heavy fines should be imposed for breaching atomic covenants!
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Since the dawn of the aviation era, inventors have strived to build aircraft that fly as nimbly as birds, whose morphable wings allow for faster, tighter turns and more efficient gliding. Hopefully it doesn't do other things like a pigeon
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So they stick feathers on an airframe, and use a different section of the wing as an aileron, and immediately start talking as if they're great inventors?
I've changed my mind.
Communication is used more by idiots like this for spewing out their lunacy than it is for any intelligent purpose, so just pass me a stick and point me at a hairy elephant.
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This new beginner-level, six-course certificate, developed by Google, is designed to provide IT professionals with in-demand skills -- including Python, Git, and IT automation -- that can help you advance your career. "Teacher, teacher, can you teach me?"
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The tag line:
"LET GOOGLE TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR FUTURE!"
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Musk envisions these ships departing Earth orbit over a 30-day period, the window of time when Earth and Mars are best aligned to make the trip, every 26 months. * Return trip not included
Safety not guaranteed, soft landing not guaranteed, batteries not included.
Why do we keep listening to this guy? Oh right, he's rich.
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just a quick sanity check here:
he is curretly 48.
so he would be 78 in 2050.
Was just checking if he would still be around.
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He's doing it for the good of the world -- and he already has the full list of all telephone sanitisers, etc.
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There are 15 such 30-day periods in the next 30 years. Assuming the hardware were ready today, that would mean launching of more than 2,200 people every day. This is about 10 times more than all the astronauts/cosmonauts/X-nauts launched in the last 60 years.
Elon Musk has big dreams, but I don't think that he can do elementary math.!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It's why he's building starship so huge. The intent is to put 100 people on each, so 100k people is 1000 crewed starship launches. They'll need somewhere between 5 and 10 tanker launches each to refuel in orbit prior to departure (this number's heavily dependent on exactly what Starship ends up weighing).
His dreams may very well exceed his grasp; but the numbers check out for the model he's designing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Assuming that the hardware is ready within 10 years, that means 100,000 people each 30-day period, and 1000 starship launches. These require 5,000-10,000 tanker launches over a period of 25 months (7-13 launches/day). All this to be built within the next 10 years?!
Even if his figures are accurate, no organization has come within orders of magnitude of that many launches per day.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Don't forget we multiply.
If he puts a quarter million couples on Mars (so 2 x 250,000) by 2049, he can have his million nine months later 
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Why bother with couples?
Assuming:
- Women use artificial insemination (no need for men
 ) - Women arrive every 26 months (after Earth-Mars closest approach)
- Each woman starts having children as soon as she arrives, and has one child every 26 months
Those that arrive in 2031 would have 10 children by 2050
Those that arrive in 2033 would have 9 children by 2050
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Those that arrive in 2049 would have 1 child by 2050
For each 10 women arriving (one per cohort), we have 55 children, i.e. 550% growth. We therefore need to send only 160,000 fertile women (and 1 sperm bank) to Mars.
Mars needs Moms!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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He expects that much enemy in 30 years?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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